Triumphs

Grief. It’s a peculiar thing. Today marks D-Day (Diagnosis Day) + 22 years. I can’t believe it’s been that long — but my body knows it. For a long time, I felt strange calling Dave’s diagnosis day a form of grief. But my therapist told me it is. It represents the death of all the […]

Many of you have come to me in the past several weeks, asking if I’d heard of Telepathy Tapes. This is one of the recent episodes, about my dear friend, Laura and her son, Trevor. Whether you have, or whether you haven’t, give it a listen. It’s gonna blow you away. It’s funny because the

This morning I made the time to sit and practice Dave’s therapy with him. We started an amazing ‘new’ therapy, called “Spelling to Communicate” (S2C), almost 2 years ago. The data on this new therapy has been mind boggling. We have all been under the incorrect assumption that Autism is a cognitive disorder. We never

My precious ‘little’ angel face. I can’t believe it’s been 21 years since I gave birth to you. I remember when I carried you, I used to tell your Daddy that I wanted to keep you in my belly to keep you safe. 22 years later, I still feel the need to keep you safe

Today is D-Day number 18. It is also the day we celebrate the life of my beloved ‘Nana.’ Every D-Day I usually write a book of emotion, it naturally just flows out of me but on this D-Day eve it’s different. I can feel all of the emotion inside, just waiting to come out, but

I sit here in the quiet thinking about where we are today. I think about how far you have come. I think about how incredibly hard you have worked. I think about how proud I am. I think about how much you mean to me. I have so many thoughts and emotions tied up inside

I love “God-incidences”. I was at Raley’s ordering a cupCAKE for Dave’s graduation and when I was asked about what to decorate on the cake the girl said… “The decorator is really great, she does everything by hand. She’ll want to know what your son’s likes are. The kids like to post on social media